The Dutch School - Portrait Drawing & Painting Lessons
And the Secret of the Old Masters
Samenvatting
This book exists in three parts:
Part 1: Personal development.
Part 2: Drawing lessons.
Part 3: Painting lessons.
When you start painting, your personal development positively affects your entire life. You will experience people, animals, and things around you differently because your perception changes. With the practical exercises from this book, you will learn to draw and paint very well and experience the world more intensively.
After reading this book, you will gain more knowledge of the different painting techniques and become more aware of the different psychological phases you go through.
Specificaties
Inhoudsopgave
Foreword vii
Introduction ix
Part 1: Personal development
Lesson 1: Observation 1
Lesson 2: Know Thyself 5
Lesson 3: Inspiration 9
Lesson 4: The right hemisphere 15
Lesson 5: Authenticity 19
Lesson 6: Copyright 23
Lesson 7: Why make art? 27
Lesson 8: Art education makes you smart 31
Part 2: Drawing lessons - Historical overview 37
Lesson 9: Light Logic 41
Lesson 10: Drawing with graphite 47
Lesson 11: Paper as a carrier 49
Lesson 12: Drawing with pencil 55
Lesson 13: Drawing with charcoal 61
Lesson 14: Learning to see perspective 67
Lesson 15: Measuring 69
Lesson 16: Shadow Techniques 71
Part 3: Painting lessons
Lesson 17: Materials 75
Lesson 18: The Secret of the Old Masters 77
Lesson 19: The Carrier 79
Lesson 20: Preparing the carrier 83
Lesson 21: Brushes 89
Lesson 22: Paint and Pigments 91
Lesson 23: Mediums 93
Lesson 24: The Classical Portrait 97
Lesson 25: Varnishing 111
Bibliography 113
About the author 114